Hook or eye strip



(No Model.)

J. H. GOODBODY. HOOKOR BYE STRIP.

No. 529,550. Patented. No v. 20, 1894..

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JOHN H. GOODBODY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

HOOK OR EYE STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 529,550, dated November 20, 1894. Application filed November 28,1393. Serial No. 492,196. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. GOODBODY, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hook or Eye Strips; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

Every one who attempts to apply hooks and eyes to a garment is well aware of the difficulty in fastening them in place so that the opposing hooks and eyes shall match exactly. It has been sought to overcome this difficulty by riveting or otherwise permanently securing the hooks and eyes to separate strips of fabric by machinery or skilled laborers so that the equal disposition of the hooks and eyes upon these strips or tapes is assured. These strips or tapes with the hooks and eyes permanently secured thereto are put upon the market as a commodity and the purchaser sews them upon the garment. This plan secures the proper disposition of the hooks and eyes but is undesirable on account of the expense involved and of the degree of stiffness and bulkiness which is necessarily imparted to the garment by the addition of the stout fabric to which the hooks and eyes are attached.

I have devised a newartiele of manufacture by the use of which all of the difficulties above alluded to are overcome and the invention herein sought to be covered accordingly consists in the said article in the form in which it is placed upon the market and sold to consumers, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

1n the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 represents in plan View a short series of hooks attached loosely to a base strip of any suitable material. Fig. 2 represents a plan view of a short series of eyes loosely attached to a similar base strip. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a coil or roll illustrating a form in which the improved article may be placed upon the market.

In practicing my present invention I cause a series of hooks A, A, to be attached lightly to a temporary base strip B of cloth or paper or other similar material, the thread-eyes a, a, or that portion of the shank of each hook with which is engaged the thread by which the hook is permanently secured in place, projecting beyond the edge of the strip. In a similar manner the eyes 0, C, are lightly attached to a temporary base strip D of suitable material such as cloth or paper with the thread-eyes c, c, projecting over the edge thereof. Both the hooks A, A, and the eyes 0, O, are secured to the base strips B and D in any convenient manner which will serve to retain them temporarily in their relative positions upon the strip. This may be accomplished by stitching loosely with basting threads E, E, and F, F, or any other suitable strip.

The base strips with the hooks or eyes lightly attached thereto in the manner de scribed are put up in rolls, as indicated in Fig. 3, or wound upon reels or packaged in any other suitable or convenient manner for distribution to the consumer. When required for use a strip of suitable length and bearing the required number of' hooks or eyes-is cut off and is pinned or otherwise conveniently secured at one or more points to that part of the garment where the hooks or eyes are required. The hooks or eyes are then separately secured to the garment by sewing through the thread-eyes a, a, or c, c, and when this is accomplished the basting threads of the strip B or D, as the case may be, are cut and the base strip released and removed, leaving the hooks or eyes securely fastened upon the garment in positions determined exactly by their previous temporary attachment to the strip. It thus becomes necessary for the consumer, in applying a set of hooks and eyes to a garment, to exercise great care only with regard to the location of the first hook or eye of each series. If these two are properly positioned the remainder of the hooks and eyes of the two series will be certain to match exactly without any more care on the part of the person applying them than is necessary to lay the strips smoothly upon the respective portions of the garment. Furthermore, the

hooks and eyes are permanently secured to the garment by stitching in the usual manner and their proper and usual action is therefore not interfered with or varied as would be the case if they were riveted or otherwise similarly secured permanently to a tape. Again,

hooks and eyes may be applied in accordance with my invention to dress waists or other garments of light material which would be disfigured by the permanent application of a strip of fabric to which the hooks or eyes are riveted, such fabric being necessarily quite heavy in order'to have the requisite strength and body for the riveting of the hooks or eyes thereon. Moreover, as will be clearly obvious, the cost of production of the strip of hooks or eyes will not be appreciably greater than that of hooks and eyes put up for the market in the usual Way and will be materially less than the cost of producing the strips with the hooks and eyes permanently secured thereto.

In order to make the claim positive, a hook strip only has been specified therein, but it will at once be seen that for the purpose of this invention, eyes are the full equivalent of hooks, and I therefore consider an eye strip within the scope of the claim.

I claim as my invention- 1. As an article of manufacture, a hook strip comprising a base strip, a series of hooks upon said base strip at intervals the threadeyes of said hooks projecting beyond the edge of said base strip in a plane substantially parallel with the plane of the base strip, and means carried by said base strip for removably attaching said hooks to said base strip, whereby said hooks may be secured in permanent position upon a garment and said base strip removed; substantially as described.

2. As an article of manufacture, a hook strip comprising a base strip, a series of hooks upon said base strip at intervals, the-threadeyes of said hooks projecting beyond the edge of said base strip, and a removable strip attaching'said hooks to said base strip, whereby said hooks may be secured in permanent position upon a garment and said base strip removed; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN H. Go'oDBoDY.

\Vitnesses:

A. N. J ESBERA, A. WIDDER. 

